Accepting or rejecting print jobs

In the Printer Setup Manager, select the desired printer, select Printer Control, then select Accept or Reject. Normally, when you add a printer with the Printer Setup Manager, the printer is set up to accept local print jobs automatically. When a printer is accepting print jobs, lp adds new jobs to the printer's queue.

When you specify that a printer reject print jobs, all new print requests are denied (not added to the queue) until you set the printer to accept them again. If a user tries to print a file on a printer that is not accepting requests, the print job is not accepted and lp displays this message:

   UX:lp: ERROR: Requests for destination "printer_name" aren't
                 being accepted.

See also:

• ``Managing print jobs''

• ``Enabling and disabling printers''

• ``Starting and stopping the print service''

• accept(1M) (for command-line interface)